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Several members of the Media Studies Research Group presented their works at the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) at Toronto, Canada, which was attended by thousands of scholars from different parts of the globe.
At the pre-conference of the Journalistic Role Performance project, Dr. Aynur Sarisakaloglu presented the findings of her study with Pauline Gidget Estella. In their paper, they examined the impact of artificial intelligence on journalism competence. Estella also presented her work on fact-checking networks in a pre-conference on the “global fact-checking movements”.
At the main conference, Yi Xu for the first time chaired a session titled “Up Close and Visual: Participatory and Ethnographic Visual Research” for the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division. She also presented a paper titled “Visual Framing and Implication to Multimodal Framing: A Systematic Review of Publications During 1970-2021”. Apart from these, Yi Xu presented a research on using social virtual reality in teaching intercultural communication, co-authored with Prof. Dr. Liane Rothenberger, Kathrin Knutzen, and Irina Tribusean.
Pauline Gidget Estella, meanwhile, was one of the speakers in a panel on cosmopolitan research and “deep internationalization”. Shediscussed de-westernization of communication studies and presented proposals for a cosmopolitan research agenda.